Hoaxing Statistical Features of the Voynich Manuscript

Gordon Rugg, Gavin Taylor, 2017. Cryptologia 41(3): 247–268.

Extends Rugg's table-and-grille method to argue that it also reproduces the main statistical features of the Voynich text, including Zipf-like word frequencies and the word-length distribution.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/01611194.2016.1206753Checked against the original0

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The book uses it with Rugg 2004 to specify the table-and-grille generator tested in chapter 25.

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Rugg, G., & Taylor, G. (2017). Hoaxing Statistical Features of the Voynich Manuscript. Cryptologia, 41(3), 247–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2016.1206753

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Rugg, Gordon and Gavin Taylor. “Hoaxing Statistical Features of the Voynich Manuscript.” Cryptologia 41, no. 3 (2017): 247–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2016.1206753.